Regarding Final Frontier and Maps

mufdvr222 · Post by **mufdvr222** » 09 Sep 2005, 09:31

I grabbed the images for this cubemap from the hubble site.

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 09 Sep 2005, 10:23

Did I say Meteor? I meant Asteroid lol...

looks good mufdvr!

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 09 Sep 2005, 13:53

Man that looks good...

Michilus_nimbus · Post by **Michilus_nimbus** » 09 Sep 2005, 16:57

So sexy...

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 10 Sep 2005, 00:20

ohhh! Shiny!

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 10 Sep 2005, 01:10

Though... puzzeled as to why teh moon has green grass on it...

Nice cubemap!

aGorm

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 10 Sep 2005, 01:59

Who said moons around saturn can't have grass?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 10 Sep 2005, 02:45

Well it could be europa. Europa is covered with ice, making it capable of sipporting life... possible.

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 10 Sep 2005, 03:43

If the grass was ditched this map would look more realistic...

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 10 Sep 2005, 04:07

Zoombie wrote:Well it could be europa. Europa is covered with ice, making it capable of sipporting life... possible.

Europa is a Jovian moon...

genblood · Post by **genblood** » 10 Sep 2005, 04:18

The screen shots looks very good. Also, the green spots look
more like a fugise or green slim. The map IMO it looks great ..
be a trend setter not a follower .... Make the maps the best
you can and let the masses decide .... You can't please them
ALL

mufdvr222 · Post by **mufdvr222** » 10 Sep 2005, 05:26

Ok This map is not mine

It was made in terragen for TA years ago by Geisthund and is called "A Tale Of Two Cities" and had a single player mission scripted for it.
If I can get hold of him and get his ok I might do something with it, as it would make a great moon map; perhaps without the green textures

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 10 Sep 2005, 05:47

mufdvr222 wrote:Ok This map is not mine
It was made in terragen for TA years ago by Geisthund and is called "A Tale Of Two Cities" and had a single player mission scripted for it.
If I can get hold of him and get his ok I might do something with it, as it would make a great moon map; perhaps without the green textures

Yeah, the map and other rendereds are here

AF · Post by AF » 13 Sep 2005, 20:07

Europa is frozen, I doubt grass would be able to exist in a sub-zero environment without substantial antifreeze and whtie colouring to prevent the moon looking green.

On another note, I thought over this a while ago. Try making the map as un-noticable as possible, then place all the units at altitudes where the map is unseen, thus giving the illusion of no map. Because the terrain cant be seen the underside showing the skybox comes through and you have glorious 360* starscape. I'm unsure wether the engine will allow you to go high enough though, maybe settings the water level in mapconv to a minus figure or something absurdly low.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 13 Sep 2005, 21:26

Couldn't you just texture the ground a space-stars esque texture and have it completely flat without any water?

AF · Post by AF » 13 Sep 2005, 21:30

hmm could do. *downlaods things and starts tinkering*

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 13 Sep 2005, 22:07

So... you back from werever you been Alantai? good to see you...

aGorm

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 14 Sep 2005, 00:46

... i just had a thought. Make a good star and black, and space stuff texture, then make the map flat, exept for some astirods pocking up (but youl have to do some creative texturing to get it to work) then make the skybox that totally cool one pictured above, and set the hardness to max, whislt having the water level being the lowest as possible. Would that work?

TA 3D · Post by **TA 3D** » 14 Sep 2005, 06:26

or replace the water texture with a star texture, and make the water not see-through(if thats possible). Just an idea.

mufdvr222 · Post by **mufdvr222** » 14 Sep 2005, 08:43

You would just need a good space/stars texture the appropriate size as stretching a smaller texture to get the map size would look very bad.

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Regarding Final Frontier and Maps